Dr Philip Beeley
Senior Research Associate
Faculty of History
Research Interests
My research focuses on the history of science, especially mathematics, during the long seventeenth century. I am the editor of the multi-volumed edition of the correspondence of the Oxford mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis (1616-1703) and general editor of the correspondence series (IV/A) of the Opera omnia of Leonhard Euler.
Publications
Beyond the Learned Academy: the practice of mathematics, 1600-1850
(co-edited with Christopher D. Hollings)
The tremendous growth of the mathematical sciences in early modern England was reflected contemporaneously in an increasingly sophisticated level of practical mathematics in fields such as merchants’ accounts, instrument making, teaching, navigation, and gauging. Mathematics in many ways shaped the knowledge culture of the age, extending through the Industrial Revolution to the nineteenth century.